HUTT FIRE BRIGADE SPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 4

HUTT FIRE BRIGADE SPORTS.

./Considerable interest :• wq-s taker, in tlio Hutt Valley Fire Brigades sports, cm Saturday at Lower . Hutt HeewsatloiiGround.. Tho weather conditions we're Rood, and a . fair crowd assembled to watch. tho result . of- the Baldwin pap competition, was tho principal event. This trophy has been si* years in existence, ■ and Wag donated by Mr. H. Baldwin, of Lower Hutt, for competition among tho teams of the li.uttValley,- the conditions-being-turee- men to run five yards, pick up tlirco fiftyfeet coils of wot hose (hydrant, union, and. two branches to be . del ached, and lying on the ground-),. rilU 25 yard* to. : plug, lix hydrant, run out oiio SOffc. lloso to each, dolivery of union, fix branches, and with iwo Jets of .water strike' disc. Any team .winning the event three years in succession, tlio cup to become its own..' Tlio Goaf Co.' B, jjadn (who in the pas', had won it two successive years) did not enter. iVmr teams entered," vith the result that Hutt'Brigade No. 1 was victorious,, :ind. this being its third successive. win, the trophy becomes its oivn/Following afo tho details' of the competition:— I'eis- Total Time, alty.'time.

Sc.c. see, .See. 1 Hutt Brigade, N-o. i 32'3-5' 3 353'^ 2 l'otcino Brigade ' .37 ' 0 37 3 Hutt Brigade, Ne-,2 3T S-5 :1 3$ 3-5 Also entered: Petotjc- Railway Workshops Brigade. The wining team cpusisted.'of 'Captain SKnw., Foreman .Dorran,- and Assistant-EoreiMU Collett. . ' In the open dvcrtt for three liwn, in which four- 50ft. lengths of liqse were to be coupled, and water show six times-, then a disabled length of hose 'tciuscfK cd, the results were:- '

' P-e-ti- Total Time. ally. lime.' see. see, sec. Ilutt Brigade, No. 2 683-5 0 063-5 Pctone Brigade •....... 762-5 8 .783-5 'Potono Railway Workshops <9 1"® 3 82 3-5 Huttßrigadoj N0.!,.. 804 -. 0 891 ; "Disqualified through failing to strike disc second time. The-winning team was Foreman Dorran, -Assistant-Foreman Ooltett,- and Fireman. Brooker '• The-judges-wore -.Messrs, Shnrdlow and -Fcatlierstoa; tiflselicepwa, Messrs. Jonness, Illinium,_ aiid An-sttep; a:nd tbo starter, Mr.-J. Wood.